"sf" > wrote in message
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> This is very easy to put together.
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> Orange and Olive Oil Cake with Rosemary
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> Ingredients:
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> 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
> 1 cup sugar
> 3 eggs
> 3 large navel oranges, zested
> 3/4 cup orange juice, freshly squeezed
> 2 cups all purpose flour
> 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
> 1 (generous) tsp, finely chopped fresh rosemary
> 1/8 tsp salt
> Butter or non stick cooking spray to grease the pan
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> Method:
> Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a 9 X 4 loaf pan with butter
> or cooking spray.
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> Measure sugar into a bowl. Zest the oranges and add the zest directly
> to the sugar in the bowl. Try to touch the zest as little as possible
> and mix it into the sugar with a whisk or a fork. The idea is to keep
> the orange oils for the sugar and not all over your hands. The sugar
> will turn an orangey color, <http://oi56.tinypic.com/2mqkwv5.jpg>
> which will be the color of the finished cake.
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> Juice the oranges, for about 3/4 cups of juice. Set aside.
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> Sift the dry ingredients: flour, salt and baking powder. Stir in the
> chopped rosemary and set aside.
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> Add the oil to the sugar and mix until blended. Beat in each egg, one
> by one, until thick foamy and almost doubled. Add about 1/3 cup flour
> and mix it in well, alternate with about 1/4 cup of juice. Repeat
> until the flour and the juice are used up. Scrape batter off the
> sides of the bowl and gently pour it into the prepared loaf pan. Bake
> in preheated oven, for 50 minutes to 1 hour (mine took an hour), or
> until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
> <http://oi51.tinypic.com/27xgtxk.jpg>
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Do you scoop and level or spoon in and level when you measure the cups of
flour?
Graham